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Canine feces as a reservoir of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2001
Johnson J R, Stell A L, Delavari P
Abstract excerpt
To test the canine reservoir hypothesis of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC), 63 environmental canine fecal deposits were evaluated for the presence of ExPEC by a combination of selective culturing, extended virulence genotyping, hemagglutination testing, O serotyping, and PCR-based phylotyping. Overall, 30% of canine fecal samples (56% of those that yielded viable E. coli) contained...
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